GATE Comparative and World Literatures in English Translation: Multilingualism, translation studies and the politics of language in literary production – Previous Year Questions

6 GATE previous year questions on Multilingualism, translation studies and the politics of language in literary production (Comparative and World Literatures in English Translation, English (XH2)) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

1. GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q37 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – “Postcolonial Translation” deals with:
2. GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q61 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Which of the following political position(s) is/are advocated in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’O’s work Decolonising the Mind?
3. GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q32 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – “I started writing in Gikuyu language in 1977 after seventeen years of involvement in Afro-European literature, in my case Afro-English literature ……
4. GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q60 (2 marks, Multiple select) – “What if, in order to save some humans lost in their language, in order to deliver the humans themselves, at the expense of their language, it was…
5. GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q33 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Which linguistic process can be seen in the formation of the following words? i. smog, ii. brunch, iii. motel iv. telecast
6. GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q49 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Who first translated Jacques Derrida’s work into English?